Mayor Dawn Zimmer took city resident and New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning on a tour of one.

“I think he was surprised. I mean, he did say that he didn’t realize it was this bad,” Zimmer told WCBS 880 reporter Sean Adams.

The two have teamed up to raise awareness of the problem because thousands of people who live in those basement apartments could have a difficult road ahead of them.

“The FEMA flood insurance… it’s limited coverage for basements and the reality is that we’re an urban setting where there are thousands of basement apartments,” Zimmer said. “We don’t want people to be… literally pushed out of Hoboken and with the way the FEMA flood insurance works right now, that’s the risk that we face.”